Just Cause

“Buried deep in the Florida Everglades is a secret that can save an innocent man or let a killer kill again.”

Paul Armstrong (Sean Connery) teaches law at Harvard and has not argued in a courtroom for twenty-five years. Then Evangeline Ferguson (Ruby Dee) asks him to take the case of her grandson, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood), on death row for the murder of a child. Arne Glimcher puts Armstrong in the local sheriff's territory, where Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) is sure the right man is already in prison, and the professor has to decide what he believes.